Οὐ μέλον αὐτῷ
not being of interest to him
Translated by Ronald Allen27 Jun 2010Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Οὐ μέλον αὐτῷ· οὐ φροντιστέον. Μένανδρος· ταύτῃ τοι τῆς κατὰ Νισίβιος πολιορκίας οὐ μέλον αὐτῷ.
Betacode
*ou) me/lon au)tw=|: ou) frontiste/on. *me/nandros: tau/th| toi th=s kata\ *nisi/bios poliorki/as ou) me/lon au)tw=|.
Notes (3)
- The headword phrase is presumably extracted from the quotation given. The verb form here is the present active participle, neuter nominative singular, of
me/lw , I am of interest. See LSJ s.v. (and cf. generally omicron 918). - 1The gloss employs an adjectival verbal noun form denoting necessity (cf. Smyth, 358), in the neuter nominative/accusative singular, from
frontiste/os (one must take heed), ultimately derived from the verbfronti/zw , I take heed; see generally LSJ s.v. ↩ - 2A city in northeast Mesopotamia, present-day Nusaybin, Turkey (Barrington Atlas map 89 grid D3); cf. nu 426 and see generally OCD(4) s.v. Nisibis. ↩
- 3Menander Protector fr. 16.2 Blockley (36a FHG, 4.240); see Blockley, pp. 154-5. This fragment is generally associated with the preemptive siege of Nisibis by the Roman general Marcian (PLRE IIIb s.v. Marcianus 7) in early 573 CE (Blockley, p. 271). ↩
References
H.W. Smyth, Greek Grammar, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1956
R.C. Blockley, The History of Menander the Guardsman, Liverpool: Francis Cairns, 1985
J.R. Martindale, The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, vol. IIIb, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992
R.C. Blockley, The History of Menander the Guardsman, Liverpool: Francis Cairns, 1985
J.R. Martindale, The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, vol. IIIb, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992
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Revision history4 revisions · last 6 Aug 2014
- Revised — David Whitehead
- tweaking — David Whitehead
- expanded n.3 — David Whitehead
- another x-ref; another keyword; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Ronald Allen